Essays about: "Paranoid"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the word Paranoid.

  1. 1. ”a text… that shares my wonder”: A Survey of Three Contemporary Examples of Creative Criticism

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media

    Author : Sara Dahlberg; [2022]
    Keywords : Literary criticism; Creative Criticism; Affect; Rita Felski; Anne Carson; Doireann Ní Ghríofa; Vivian Gornick; The hermeneutics of suspicion; Paranoid Reading; Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : In the last few decades, dissatisfaction with the prevailing critical paradigm ¬– what Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick as early as 1997 dubbed “paranoid” or “suspicious” reading – has grown significantly. This thesis is a survey of three recent works, The Albertine Workout (2014), Unfinished Business: Notes of A Chronic Re-Reader (2020), and A Ghost in the Throat (2020), that emerge from this discontent. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Devil Led Us to the Wrong Crib : Paranoid and Reparative Reading in Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? 

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Berfin Sekerci; [2020]
    Keywords : Attachment theory; Jeanette Winterson; Melanie Klein; mother-daughter relationship;

    Abstract : This essay analyzes the issues of attachment between Jeanette Winterson and her adoptive mother in the memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?. My argument is that the memoir demonstrates a movement from what Sedgwick calls the paranoid position of reading to the reparative position. READ MORE

  4. 3. The truth is out there : Is it irrational to believe in conspiracy theories?

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Filosofiska institutionen

    Author : Martin Lundqvist; [2019]
    Keywords : Conspiracy theory; epistemology.;

    Abstract : The conventional wisdom is the epistemological strategy of rejecting conspiracy theories prior to investigation based on the presumption that such theories are almost always irrational. However, if a conspiracy theory is simply a theory which posits conspiracies and history is chock-a-block with conspiracies, then why should we generally reject conspiracy theories prior to investigation? Charles Pigden argues that precisely because conspiracies are historically common in the realm of power politics there will be conspiracy theories that are importantly true. READ MORE

  5. 4. Virtual avatars rising : the social impact based on a content analysis and a questionnaire in the context of fashion industry

    University essay from Högskolan i Borås/Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi

    Author : Kirke Leinatamm; Stamatoula Bilali; [2019]
    Keywords : digital influencers; digital supermodels; virtual avatar; 3D graphics; disruptive technology; marketing; social impact;

    Abstract : Innovative technologies and their ability to grow rapidly are known to be a great source of controversy and paranoid reactions amongst people. The aim of this research is to examine the acceptance and perception of the technology of digital supermodels and influencers. READ MORE

  6. 5. Facial Emotion Processing in Paranoid and Non-Paranoid Schizophrenia

    University essay from Institutionen för kommunikation och information

    Author : Sophie Jacobsson; [2010]
    Keywords : Schizophrenia; Paranoid Schizophrenia; Facial processing; Emotion; Social cognition;

    Abstract : The aim of this essay is to investigate how paranoid and non-paranoid schizophrenic patients differ in the processing of emotional facial expressions from healthy individuals, and how this could lead to deficits in the area of social cognition. Researchers have conducted many behavioral and neuroimaging studies on facial emotion processing and emotion recognition in schizophrenia. READ MORE